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I can't believe what I said about myself. What I said in my own private conversations with myself to an ESPN producer are my business, and I had no business saying them to someone else.

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Don King
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: August 20
Actor
Boxing Promoter
Entrepreneur
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Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali.
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There's nothing wrong with options. Options are everywhere. In movies, in sports. Options is not a dirty word. I need to pay my overheads, you know. I invest a lot of money developing a fighter and then I deserve to reap the rewards.
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I'm a promoter of the people for the people and by the people and my magic lies in my people ties.
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Forgiveness is a beautiful thing. That's why I forgive Reince Priebus, that little Greek rascal.
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I've whipped the Harvard graduate's ass. Nothing against Harvard - it's a hell of a school - but there I was, twenty five yards behind, wrapped in leg irons, and I beat him.
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If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped.
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You sign an agreement you make a contract, you live up to it. You never get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. You got a right to say yay or nay.
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There's only one rule anyone connected with boxing must keep in mind - everything you here in boxing is a lie.
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I'll pay them right after it snows in Panama. Let Eleta pay them if he feels so strongly about it.
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Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.
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She's (Christy Martin) voluptuous and intoxicating no smear lipstick. Here's a woman who pounds it out and her lipstick don't smear. Revlon should jump on that like white on rice, you know what I mean? Max Factor, Elizabeth Arden.
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